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Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein
Age: 72 †
Born: 1874
Born: February 3
Died: 1946
Died: July 27
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Salonnière
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Allegheny
Pennsylvania
Gertruda Stein
Gertruda Staĭn
Gertrude Stein
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The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
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I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.
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History takes time. History makes memory.
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There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.
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Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.
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There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
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Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.
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I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
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I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.
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There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
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Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
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Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody.
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Always it comes very slowly the completed understanding of it, the repeating each one does to tell it the whole history of the being in each one, always now I hear it. Always now slowly I understand it.
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It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
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Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.
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It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
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Let me listen to me and not to them.
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You attract what you need like a lover
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